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Kim is with Mia telling her all the events of the day which she already knows. She wonders if when you die you remember your life because she'd want to remember Kim. There's a flashback to a Labor Day party with their family, Kim, and Adam, and Mia played a song with Adam and her dad. Then back to real time, Adam comes back and starts crying and talking about everything. She feels his hand and then wakes up, the end!

Mia realizes that Teddy is dead too. There is a flashback to his birth, and leading up to it, and a flashback to the only funeral she has been to and how the funeral dumb and meaningless. Then it shows when her dad switched from band dude to actual dad, and when she started listening to his music. Adam is in the room with her now. Flashback to the Julliard audition and not telling Adam about it, etc.

Flashback to when Mia was younger and considering quitting the cello. Kim convinced her not to by forcing her to go to this summer camp for musicians. She went, met some other people and has gone back every year since (4 years?). Back to real time, Adam and Kim are trying to sneak in by creating a scene with the musician Brooke. The rest gets kicked out but nurse Willow lets them in.

Mia is in the hospital, watching her body from outside it. All her family is there, just sitting in the waiting room. Her friend Kim shows up with her mom, who sort of creates a scene so they leave. There are flashbacks to how Mia and Adam met, the first concert they went to, and all Adam's shows that she put up with but still felt uncomfortable in. They also went to a Halloween party.

This book started off with Mia's perfect, happy family. It was a snowy day, and the family decided to take a trip to their grandparent's house. On the way they get into a bad car accident. Mia's parents die, but her brother is alive. She has a sort of out of body experience going on. There are a lot of flashbacks to Mia's life before, with her boyfriend Adam or playing music, as she's a talented musician.